School teachers can and do get reprimanded if not fired for engaging in activities that, while acceptable for adults, are "corrupting" for children.
It's not about whether it's legal, or a detriment to their job performance. It's about the example they're setting for those poor, impressionable children.
If pictures of a drunk teacher found their way to the wrong parent, they'd definitely be in trouble.
That's a ludicrous state of affairs. I work in an FE college we get kids from 14 all the way to 19. My employer hasn't once queried what I do in my own time as long it's within the law as I'm not seen to be representing them. As the drinking age here is 18 al lot of the students are doing worse themselves anyway; even the younger ones will probably be having a drink somehow anyway (underage drinking is a problem here).
I even know a couple of tutors who got drunk on college time in the presence of their line manager and other staff (it was some Jisc awards evening to do with e-learning; they won a prize) apart from cracking a couple of jokes about it, no one batted an eyelid.
Seriously people drink in their own time, that makes them normal, balanced individuals. Not devious corrupting influences out to steal babies.
True, but you guys also may be allowed the odd pint with lunch. Not so here in the United States of Amerika.
Why not?
Nowhere I've worked has had any sort of (enforced) policy on the issue. The one time I worked near a pub I would regularly have my lunch there*; officially I wasn't allowed to drink any alcohol (I think), and usually I'd order a soft drink but no one ever checked up on me. A glass of wine, or a vodka-red bull, passed my lips on more than one occasion. I can testify that I once saw my manager having a drink there at lunch time as well. As long as you don't get drunk, and work just as hard after lunch as before, what's the problem?
*It was a choice of that, an over priced cafe or Subway. The pub did great food.
What company would decide not to employ you for having a drink at a party in your own time? Seriously, here in the UK when we talk about what we did on the weekend at the office more than one of my bosses has to going out and getting absolutely hammered. If they saw that picture, it would only prove that your friend is a sociable person that likes to have fun; i.e. someone that will also have a sense of humour around the office. What's wrong with that?
I've seen that site before and I believe it's a parody site. The fact that you couldn't tell if it's real suggest both that it's good parody, and scares me (I'm a Brit, are there actually people like that out there?). Check out what she has to say about Linux...
"I bet you the Defense Department could find lots of savings by sourcing their parts from Nintendo, too!"
Until the system fails because it wasn't built the have the shit beaten out of it in daily use. Military gear resembles professional construction equipment and is usually made in smaller quantities. While COTS solutions are attractive, they don't always suit the tasking.
Nintendo's systems are designed to resist small children; a force far more dangerous than anything the military can come up with;p
Download him lightscreen, which is actually designed for specialised screen capture (e.g you can grab individual windows or screen areas as opposed to the whole screen). I haven't used it for a while, but IIRC you can also tell it to take a screen-cap every x seconds.
You forgot "the universe is just a figment of my imagination"...
Which it is: given that the volume of the universe is infinite there must be an infinite number of worlds. But not all of them are populated; therefore only a finite number are. Any finite number divided by infinity is zero, therefore the average population of the Universe is zero, and so the total population must be zero. So anyone I meet must be a product of my deranged imagination.
The British kangaroo system of libel law is a prime example.
Not to defend the moronic state of libel law in this country, but many of the current problems are in large part down to case law created by one Judge: Mr Justice Eady. Hopefully a government will find time to implement statute to override his dumb judgements, but libel law isn't a big political topic, and hey, whilst the judgements are stupid, they bring money into the British justice system from abroad...
There's this small thing called due process that you seem to be overlooking. Indeed, the suspect hasn't actually been found guilty yet; good luck finding an impartial jury though, so much of this should have been kept sub judace.
The thought never crossed my mind... and I am not being sarcastic. I've heard people debate it and argue it but I never even considered it. It's Picard for God's sakes.
More on topic - do Knights actually hold any government sway or what? If the British Empire were to collapse and the world dive in to chaos, could we have Picard as our last line of defense? Say the whole cabinent were to be assassinated... could we vote Jean Luc in to save us?
Not really, it does get technically get him a place in the order of precedence, so if enough people were to be killed he could become King, but he's low enough down that theses are probably thousands above him.
You're just jealous you didn't send it into Slashdot...;-)
But to my surprise, CNN.com had the story, where the British Daily Mail (dailymail.co.uk) website didn't have any mention of it when I sent this in last night.
At that point it was reasonable to assume this was still 'breaking news' and worthy of reporting to this community.
As the list of New years honours is only officially published today (31st December), none of the British media ever bother to try and get a 'scoop' on it as otherwise it shows that the person awarded it leaked the fact. I found out about this a few days ago: http://trekmovie.com/2009/12/18/patrick-stewart-to-be-knighted/ it seems he or his agent leaked it to paramount, and the Americans published it. The British media like to speculate, but tend not to break the trust of the recipients or the government. One of the few instances left where they wait for the official report rather than the inevitably leaked trails.
Parent shouldn't be marked troll, he's correct. Whilst the British mandate was still in effect over what was then Palestine, Zionist groups conducted what would today be described as a terrorist campaign against them culminating in the Bombing of the King David hotel. As the parent said, the tactics worked to help establish the Israeli state, it may eventually work for the Palestinians as well.
To your point though, the USA should have a mechanism like many of the EU nations have. European citizens get to vote on a treaty being passed. We do not. What's up with that?
No we don't. Germany's constitution explicitly forbids referendums (referenda?), for example other countries EU occasionally do it because the population want one and the politicians think that it's politically expedient to give them one*. The only country that does get them is Ireland, and IIRC that's because their courts decided that treaties are effectively constitutional changes (which require a popular vote there). I also think that this only applies to EU treaties, though I might be wrong there.
*Even then they if they don't like the result they change the rules and decide referendums aren't such good things after all. See the French and Dutch votes on the proposed Europian Constitution (they voted no) and compare that with the vote on the Lisbon Treaty (they didn't get one) despite it being a reworked version of the same document. This said by someone who is pro-EU and would have voted yes if we had got a vote (here in the UK).
Cool. Come to think of it, my university gives students access to loads of databases of research papers, newspapers, scientific journals and whatnot. Probably even Britannica online and other "pay for" encyclopedias...
Maybe I should check those out more often. I don't much look up that much serious stuff, though. I use those databases and things mostly to get inspiration and background and viewpoints for school-stuff.
I actually work in an academic library, please use those resources, most of them are hideously expensive, and if the students don't use them they'll get cut from the budget. I'm in FE (16-19) not a university library so funding is even tighter. We're only just starting up a proper electronic collection; the research into the prices makes my eyes water.
I don't have acces to a library and the content of the books in the library on the internet.
My local public library (in the UK) lets me access the encyclopedia Britannica online from home, for free. I just need my library card and the same pin that I use for their other online resources (also used to let me renew & reserve books online).
Having said that, I don't think even with their draconian and arbitrary relevancy policies that they're anywhere near the end of everything that would fit on the site.
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If you're going to be a grammar nazi, at least do it properly. It's not nebulas, it's nebulae.
School teachers can and do get reprimanded if not fired for engaging in activities that, while acceptable for adults, are "corrupting" for children.
It's not about whether it's legal, or a detriment to their job performance. It's about the example they're setting for those poor, impressionable children.
If pictures of a drunk teacher found their way to the wrong parent, they'd definitely be in trouble.
That's a ludicrous state of affairs. I work in an FE college we get kids from 14 all the way to 19. My employer hasn't once queried what I do in my own time as long it's within the law as I'm not seen to be representing them. As the drinking age here is 18 al lot of the students are doing worse themselves anyway; even the younger ones will probably be having a drink somehow anyway (underage drinking is a problem here).
I even know a couple of tutors who got drunk on college time in the presence of their line manager and other staff (it was some Jisc awards evening to do with e-learning; they won a prize) apart from cracking a couple of jokes about it, no one batted an eyelid.
Seriously people drink in their own time, that makes them normal, balanced individuals. Not devious corrupting influences out to steal babies.
True, but you guys also may be allowed the odd pint with lunch. Not so here in the United States of Amerika.
Why not?
Nowhere I've worked has had any sort of (enforced) policy on the issue. The one time I worked near a pub I would regularly have my lunch there*; officially I wasn't allowed to drink any alcohol (I think), and usually I'd order a soft drink but no one ever checked up on me. A glass of wine, or a vodka-red bull, passed my lips on more than one occasion. I can testify that I once saw my manager having a drink there at lunch time as well. As long as you don't get drunk, and work just as hard after lunch as before, what's the problem?
*It was a choice of that, an over priced cafe or Subway. The pub did great food.
What company would decide not to employ you for having a drink at a party in your own time? Seriously, here in the UK when we talk about what we did on the weekend at the office more than one of my bosses has to going out and getting absolutely hammered. If they saw that picture, it would only prove that your friend is a sociable person that likes to have fun; i.e. someone that will also have a sense of humour around the office. What's wrong with that?
Surely each Canadian province is a separate state; otherwise you're bigger than the rest of the US put together.
while Red Alert 2 was a bad joke.
I loved Red Alert 2. The only real problem is that there was no Yuri storyline in the expansion.
I've seen that site before and I believe it's a parody site. The fact that you couldn't tell if it's real suggest both that it's good parody, and scares me (I'm a Brit, are there actually people like that out there?). Check out what she has to say about Linux...
"I bet you the Defense Department could find lots of savings by sourcing their parts from Nintendo, too!"
Until the system fails because it wasn't built the have the shit beaten out of it in daily use. Military gear resembles professional construction equipment and is usually made in smaller quantities. While COTS solutions are attractive, they don't always suit the tasking.
Nintendo's systems are designed to resist small children; a force far more dangerous than anything the military can come up with ;p
Download him lightscreen, which is actually designed for specialised screen capture (e.g you can grab individual windows or screen areas as opposed to the whole screen). I haven't used it for a while, but IIRC you can also tell it to take a screen-cap every x seconds.
You forgot "the universe is just a figment of my imagination"...
Which it is: given that the volume of the universe is infinite there must be an infinite number of worlds. But not all of them are populated; therefore only a finite number are. Any finite number divided by infinity is zero, therefore the average population of the Universe is zero, and so the total population must be zero. So anyone I meet must be a product of my deranged imagination.
Thank to Douglas Adams insight for the above.
The British kangaroo system of libel law is a prime example.
Not to defend the moronic state of libel law in this country, but many of the current problems are in large part down to case law created by one Judge: Mr Justice Eady.
Hopefully a government will find time to implement statute to override his dumb judgements, but libel law isn't a big political topic, and hey, whilst the judgements are stupid, they bring money into the British justice system from abroad...
There's this small thing called due process that you seem to be overlooking. Indeed, the suspect hasn't actually been found guilty yet; good luck finding an impartial jury though, so much of this should have been kept sub judace.
Parliament is sovereign
But surely the Monarch is still the head of the Church?
Yes, she's head of the Church of England and "Defender of the faith" (both titles go back to the 1500s & Henry VII).
The thought never crossed my mind... and I am not being sarcastic. I've heard people debate it and argue it but I never even considered it. It's Picard for God's sakes. More on topic - do Knights actually hold any government sway or what? If the British Empire were to collapse and the world dive in to chaos, could we have Picard as our last line of defense? Say the whole cabinent were to be assassinated... could we vote Jean Luc in to save us?
Not really, it does get technically get him a place in the order of precedence, so if enough people were to be killed he could become King, but he's low enough down that theses are probably thousands above him.
It's more than that, the Monarch is the Sovereign.
That's not true any more, Parliament is sovereign, and has been since we beheaded Charles the first.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_sovereignty#United_Kingdom
You're just jealous you didn't send it into Slashdot... ;-)
But to my surprise, CNN.com had the story, where the British Daily Mail (dailymail.co.uk) website didn't have any mention of it when I sent this in last night.
At that point it was reasonable to assume this was still 'breaking news' and worthy of reporting to this community.
As the list of New years honours is only officially published today (31st December), none of the British media ever bother to try and get a 'scoop' on it as otherwise it shows that the person awarded it leaked the fact. I found out about this a few days ago: http://trekmovie.com/2009/12/18/patrick-stewart-to-be-knighted/ it seems he or his agent leaked it to paramount, and the Americans published it. The British media like to speculate, but tend not to break the trust of the recipients or the government. One of the few instances left where they wait for the official report rather than the inevitably leaked trails.
So you called 2000 the last year of the nineties?
As the Gregoroina calendar doesn't have a "year zero" but goes directly from 1 BC to 1 AD, yes, 2000 was the last year of the last decade.
Parent shouldn't be marked troll, he's correct. Whilst the British mandate was still in effect over what was then Palestine, Zionist groups conducted what would today be described as a terrorist campaign against them culminating in the Bombing of the King David hotel. As the parent said, the tactics worked to help establish the Israeli state, it may eventually work for the Palestinians as well.
Indian law, like US law is based on British Common law (India being a former colony and all). The basic principles are likely to be very similar.
Government Intervention would be his idealistic dream.
I doubt this is true, he detests the BBC.
To your point though, the USA should have a mechanism like many of the EU nations have. European citizens get to vote on a treaty being passed. We do not. What's up with that?
No we don't. Germany's constitution explicitly forbids referendums (referenda?), for example other countries EU occasionally do it because the population want one and the politicians think that it's politically expedient to give them one*. The only country that does get them is Ireland, and IIRC that's because their courts decided that treaties are effectively constitutional changes (which require a popular vote there). I also think that this only applies to EU treaties, though I might be wrong there.
*Even then they if they don't like the result they change the rules and decide referendums aren't such good things after all. See the French and Dutch votes on the proposed Europian Constitution (they voted no) and compare that with the vote on the Lisbon Treaty (they didn't get one) despite it being a reworked version of the same document. This said by someone who is pro-EU and would have voted yes if we had got a vote (here in the UK).
Cool. Come to think of it, my university gives students access to loads of databases of research papers, newspapers, scientific journals and whatnot. Probably even Britannica online and other "pay for" encyclopedias...
Maybe I should check those out more often. I don't much look up that much serious stuff, though. I use those databases and things mostly to get inspiration and background and viewpoints for school-stuff.
I actually work in an academic library, please use those resources, most of them are hideously expensive, and if the students don't use them they'll get cut from the budget. I'm in FE (16-19) not a university library so funding is even tighter. We're only just starting up a proper electronic collection; the research into the prices makes my eyes water.
I don't have acces to a library and the content of the books in the library on the internet.
My local public library (in the UK) lets me access the encyclopedia Britannica online from home, for free. I just need my library card and the same pin that I use for their other online resources (also used to let me renew & reserve books online).
Having said that, I don't think even with their draconian and arbitrary relevancy policies that they're anywhere near the end of everything that would fit on the site.
Wikipedia is home to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_ducks the rules can't be that draconian
A period is a more solid division than a comma.
Experiment: 10 000,00 10 000.00
Hmm... hypothesis refuted. Try again?
You've got the seperators in the wrong place (at least for standard UK usage), that should be:
1,000,000 or using dots:
1.000.000